Monthly Archive: August 2015

I’m still really, really sore and stumbling around a bit while walking, but that’s not stopping me swimming or cycling, although I’m taking it easy with both of them. I did 16 lengths of the pool today and I’m planning to up that by 2 lengths a day until I’m...

I felt the first twinge of boredom today, that’s not bad going since I retired nearly 3 months ago and I have a good reason. I’m really really sore from yesterdays workout and my head feels fuzzy from the difficulty sleeping, because I was really really sore last night too! ...

This year has seen interest in workplace design gradually building; a few consultancies have been established; blogs and podcasts have created; a couple of books have been written; and of course the start-ups have been investing their VC’s millions in fancy offices that get plenty of publicity. It’s nice to...

This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog. All too often offices are designed based on an efficiency metric that works for the facilities management organisation, cost/person, needs to be...

It was only the first day of my gym training, but honestly I can already say that I’ve never worked so hard, that’s the difference that a personal trainer makes. The first session was free and was more of an assessment than a training session, but the assessment was hard,...

This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog. Sometime you need to do whatever it takes; to go to extremes; to work seven days a week; work through the night;...

Over the last few months I’ve been giving some thought to what we mean when we talk about differentiation at work and it’s a confusing answer. Sometimes we mean how we differentiate ourselves on a particular deal, sometime what we currently do better than our competitors and very occasionally we...

I’m back in St Annes today and it feels great, it’s very true that one of the best things about travelling is coming home, all those little comforts, knowing where everything is, seeing friends and family, time to chill out. What’s not so great though is the accumulation of all...

This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog. I’ve been thinking a lot about frameworks for motivation recently, starting with Maslow’s unsatisfactory Hierarchy of Needs; then Dan Pinks, Autonomy, Purpose...

This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog. Note: I have an update to this post that’s worth reading When I started managing people one of the first theories that...